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  • Is It Time to Stop Bashing the Liberal Arts?

    Is It Time to Stop Bashing the Liberal Arts?0

    With college tuition and student-loan debt at all-time highs, it’s fashionable to bash “the liberal arts.” The standard complaint, and the point of many jokes, is that majoring in such subjects as literature, philosophy, and history doesn’t develop skills marketable enough to generate a decent “return on investment.” Even President Obama has beaten that drum.

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  • Ladies, You Need to Stop Husband-Shaming

    Ladies, You Need to Stop Husband-Shaming0

    Over the years, in posts on Facebook groups for mothers, I’ve seen my share of women talking smack about their husbands. Writing to hundreds (sometimes thousands) of other women, many of whom they don’t know, wives will unburden themselves about the latest insensitive things their husbands have done. The complaints run the gamut from real

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  • Atticus Finch’s Critique of the Public Education System

    Atticus Finch’s Critique of the Public Education System0

    In American schools, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is usually read in 8th or 9th grade. As such, because students at that grade level have only had so much life experience, some of its more penetrating social critiques are often missed. The other day I came across one of these critiques. The significance of

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  • Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom

    Schools Might Want to Reconsider the Push for Devices in the Classroom0

    It’s been a rough week for electronic devices. First there was the news that smartphones – with their continual news alerts and notifications – lead to increased inattentiveness and hyperactivity. Then there was the report that British teachers suspected parental phone usage as the reason behind the decline in the conversation ability of preschoolers.  

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  • How to Actually ‘Make America Great’

    How to Actually ‘Make America Great’0

    As an angry young man, back in my native England, I thought that the world could be fixed through the power of politics. As a not very angry and not very young man, now living in the United States, I have long since abandoned the belief that politics can fix the world. With this disillusioned

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  • Expert: ‘Focus on Diversity’ Is Causing British Universities to Decline

    Expert: ‘Focus on Diversity’ Is Causing British Universities to Decline0

    Should university admissions be purely meritocratic, based on students’ demonstrated academic ability? Or, should students with better academic profiles be passed over for admission in order to fill diversity quotas? These are some of the tough questions that British citizens may be asking themselves after a controversial article in The Telegraph last week. The piece reports that

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